I saw the second two thirds of the children's movie 'Frozen' last night. This movie features the same curse-of-paralysis-to-be-undone-by-true-love idea that Disney used in Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. But this time it was the selfless love of the cursed person for her sister that broke the spell, not a kiss bestowed by her prince charming. Also, the curse itself was rooted in fear, the consequence of a natural born witch trying to suppress her own dangerous magic by suppressing her capacity to feel. And also notable to me was the way the witch's struggles had bad effects on everyone else from a distance, even though she thought of what she was doing as being her own problem. That seems to me to be right.

I thought the story resolution was overly glib - difficulties don't suddenly vanish and power doesn't instantly stop corrupting when you start trying to love. But that could be a sequel, and after all it was a children's movie. The two core messages were: embrace your psychic power rather than being afraid of it, and love is more about moral courage and caring about people more than about romance. This seems to me to be a positive way of looking at things.